Trump’s “Flying King” defecation video was praised by some of his supporters as “performance art,” “owning the protesters,” or simply “having fun”, comments that deserve to have their high school diplomas revoked. There is nothing funny here.
What we are witnessing is the merging of crudity, cruelty, and rage into
a grotesque spectacle of dehumanization. a performance of power in which
humiliation becomes pleasure. As Stacey Patton noted, the act is not merely
vulgar; it is an assault on dignity, a fantasy of absolute control in which
others exist only to be debased.
Trump’s fantasy of domination is hardly new, it is the ancient dream of the colonizer, slave owner, and the pimp who confuse cruelty with strength and
humiliation with glory. It’s the same pathology that drives Stephen Miller’s
campaign to turn cruelty into policy, to make the state itself a theater of
sadism.
The act of dropping filth from above—literal or political—isn’t about
waste; it’s about hierarchy. It declares that my disgust is worth more than
your dignity, that power exists to soil what it cannot understand. The
protesters below him are not citizens in this theatrical stunt, they are props
in a ritual of domination, bodies to be used, soiled, dehumanized, and
discarded in a spectacle of contempt.
Susan Sontag once wrote that fascist aesthetics are rooted in the eroticization
of domination and the fetishization of power. In this sense, Trump’s obscene
display is not an aberration but an expression of what she called the
aesthetics of pornography, the erotic charge of control, the pleasure of
submission demanded, the beauty made of brutality.
What we see in that video is
not performance art. It is fascist pornography, the politics of degradation
turned into a public ritual of belonging, the pleasure of power masquerading as
patriotism.
-Henry Giroux
It's also Trump's sick coprophilia/scatology!
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